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Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.